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Scholarly metadata in R

Scholarly metadata – the meta-information surrounding articles – can be super useful. Although metadata does not contain the full content of articles, it contains a lot of useful information, including title, authors, abstract, URL to the article, etc.

Some data-/article-providers provide their metadata via their own APIs. For example, Nature Publishing Group provides their own metadata API here in non OAI-PMH format; you can get PLoS metadata through their search API, and the BHL (see below) provides their own custom metadata service.

Get a record from a OAI-PMH data provider.

# Single provider, one identifier
md_getrecord(provider ="pensoft", identifier ="10.3897/zookeys.1.10")
title
1 A new candidate for a Gondwanaland distribution in the Zodariidae (Araneae): Australutica in Africa
creator date type
1 Jocqué,Rudy 2008 Research Article